[olug] Advice on a white box builder

[Daniel Pfile]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:33, Aaron Grothe wrote:
> They managed to steer a good friend of mine down the
> wrong path when he asked if he could put an IDE card in a PC and use more
> than 4 drives.  They said yes it would work and no it didn't.  It wasn't so
> much the fact that they were wrong but they sounded like they were sure it
> would work.  Sometimes a simple "I don't know is the right answer."

<<< Looks over at computer with more than 4 ide devices >>>

Yup, my IDE add on card works just fine. I'm betting there was some sort
of other conflict in his system that caused the card not to work. I
would have said the same thing the DIT people did, but I don't sell
parts for a living. Maybe I'm missing something about IDE cards I never
knew...

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-- Daniel Pfile - daniel AT pfile DAWT net


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